VRM in the States: Michigan

Michigan currently has electronic registration at DMVs and electronic pollbooks.

November 26, 2018

Advances in Voter Registration Modernization

Electronic Voter Registration: Michigan launched electronic voter registration at Secretary of State branch offices – which serve as the state’s driver’s licensing offices – in 1998, and fully eliminated the use of paper for address updates in 2014. New voter registrations still require a paper form with the voter’s responses and signature to be physically mailed to election officials. Address updates, however, are transferred electronically from Secretary of State branch offices to election officials. Michigan has also implemented an online change of address service. When registered voters change their driver’s license address online, the system automatically updates their address for voter registration purposes.